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UK Pride: Then and Now, a Cop’s Perspective
By Geoff Cadman
That Gay Pride day on July 1st 1972 was filled with hope and determination and much has been achieved since. I do not like the huge cracks appearing in those first laid foundations. Below is my story from that sunny day in London, in the Summer of ‘72.
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Boston’s “Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide” — Still Going Strong After Three Decades
By John R Killacky
“It is our intellectual journal.… If you want to deal with scholarly intelligent arguments, there’s really no place else we can publish,” writer/activist Larry Kramer was quoted as saying in that same New York Times article from 1998.
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Demi Lovato’s Pronoun Change and the Freedom to Explore Our Identities
By Kollyn Conrad
Identity is very fluid, and Lovato shows us that it’s okay to change and evolve.
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The Problem With Adoption and the Case for Doing it Anyway
By Cheryl Klein
“It’s a personal decision” sounds so pat, so unhelpful. So instead I’ll say this: Face the wave. If it calls to you, ride it.
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Review of The Power of the Dog
By Ken Stuckey
Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog might best be described in paradoxical terms like “languid thriller.” …
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Peter Von Kant, A Review
By Richard Schneider
François Ozon’s new film was billed as a “Secret Screening” at the festival, as all information about it was embargoed. We knew only that John Waters described it as “a lu-lu,” and that description seems fair enough. …
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Angels and Outcasts
By Sharon Angel
Acceptance and dignity are essential to human living. They are human rights that every living breathing person inherits and deserves. When these freedoms are violated, a person’s identity is invalidated. No individual should have to fight for their survival.
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Chrissy Judy: A Film Review
By Richard Schneider
Described by director Todd Flaherty, who stars in the film, as a labor of love, Chrissy Judy begins like the stereotypical show biz movie in which we watch some performers onstage singing or acting their hearts out—in this case a lip-syncing drag act.
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ALL MAN: The International Male Story
By Richard Schneider
The “magazine/catalog” started publishing in the mid-1970s at a time when Sears and Macy’s were still airbrushing men’s bulges out of underwear ads. Not so International Male, which began to present men in a whole new way …
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Lonesome: A Review
Film Review By Richard Schneider
The protagonist of Lonesome is one of those gay men that you would never pick out of a crowd, a taciturn cowboy from Australia’s cattle country who just happens to fancy the dudes.
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